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Paper

The paper's title, authors, and their affiliations. Include a link to the paper and any particularly helpful supplementary information.

Background Concepts

Explain briefly the background concepts and ideas that your fellow classmates will need to know first in order to understand your assigned paper.

Research problem

What is the research problem being addressed by the paper? How does this problem relate to past related work?

Contribution

What are the research contribution(s) of this work? Specifically, what are the key research results, and what do they mean? (What was implemented? Why is it any better than what came before?)

Critique

What is good and not-so-good about this paper? You may discuss both the style and content; be sure to ground your discussion with specific references. Simple assertions that something is good or bad is not enough - you must explain why.

References

You will almost certainly have to refer to other resources; please cite these resources in the style of citation of the papers assigned (inlined numbered references). Place your bibliographic entries in this section.

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+The paper's title, authors, and their affiliations. Include a link to the paper and any particularly helpful supplementary information.
-Authors in order presented: Silas Boyd-Wickizer, Austin T. Clements, Yandong Mao, Aleksey Pesterev, M. Frans Kaashoek, Robert Morris, and Nickolai Zeldovich
-[http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf An Analysis of Linux Scalability to Many Cores]
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